Musorgsky: His Life and Works

by David Brown

Book Overview

Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian music. Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century. Indeed, this is the largest such study of Musorgsky to have appeared outside Russia.
Brown shows how Musorgsky, though essentially an amateur with no systematic training in composition, emerged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199735522
• ISBN13: 9780199735525
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"